How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server

Re:How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100... by akshatpradhan on Thursday July 21, 2016 @10:38AM (#12137131)

>Yes, it's a pain and particularly the user authentication solutions are very complex. https://github.com/hassox/phoenix_guardian

This is why I don't see the point of moving over to Elixir. Rails has ready-to-go and battle tested "modules" that you can pop in and go.

If I used Elixir now, I would have to wait for the community to build something battle tested or I can home-roll my own Elixir authentication. The Poster above just said, "It's a pain particularly user authentication."

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Re:How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100... by im_down_w_otp on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:12PM (#12139265)

I maintain that a web framework is probably one of the least interesting things that's enabled by a language like Elixir, a VM like BEAM, and a foundation like OTP... but... for whatever reason web frameworks have become the criteria by which we seem to measure languages these days.

That said. A chat application is really, really well-suited to Elixir.

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Re:How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100... by andy_ppp on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:05PM (#12138750)

It's definitely a lot harder to move to Elixir and Phoenix but I've enjoyed learning FP and Elixir a lot; I've done it mostly to challenge myself and it's informed my programming in other languages.

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